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Organic Authority - organic food, organic living, green living, organic thoughts.Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:45:27 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.415 Conscious Eating Recipes: Scrumptious, Low-Impact Earth Month Mealshttp://www.organicauthority.com/15-conscious-eating-recipes-scrumptious-low-impact-earth-month-meals/
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:00:52 +0000http://www.organicauthority.com/?p=35112Eating low impact recipes is great for your health and for the Earth. We want to help you get started on your conscious eating journey, so we’ve rounded up 15 great low impact recipes that you can make during, or after, Earth month. All you have to do is make three a week to try […]

Eating low impact recipes is great for your health and for the Earth. We want to help you get started on your conscious eating journey, so we’ve rounded up 15 great low impact recipes that you can make during, or after, Earth month. All you have to do is make three a week to try them all, and change your life for the better!

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000http://www.organicauthority.com/s2-sanctuary/c22-kids/3-earth-day-projects-for-kids/April is Earth Month and we’ll soon celebrate Earth Day, so try these three Earth Day crafts for kids. Use your plants and recyclables to illustrate a few of the key points of Earth Day: preserving and protecting plants, animals (that includes us humans) and the planet. 1. Earthy Painted Flowerpot and Saucer Talk with […]

April is Earth Month and we’ll soon celebrate Earth Day, so try these three Earth Day crafts for kids. Use your plants and recyclables to illustrate a few of the key points of Earth Day: preserving and protecting plants, animals (that includes us humans) and the planet.

1. Earthy Painted Flowerpot and Saucer

Talk with your kids about the importance of plants for our atmosphere and snazz up your clay pots with an earthy sky blue and green design. If you want to get super crafty, use globe stencils instead of the large green circles in the pot’s center.

Mix up three parts glue with one part water and brush it all over the pot and saucer. Let dry. Paint the outside of the flower pot and its inner rim sky blue. Paint the outside of the saucer sky blue (mix blue and white).

Stretch a rubber band around the flowerpot to mark the edge of your green section. Let pot and saucer dry. Paint everything below the rubber band (the bottom of the pot) green. Paint two green stripes with dots in-between them around the outer rim of the pot. Paint the rim of the saucer green. Let both pieces dry. Paint sky blue dots on the green part of the saucer and green dots on the blue part of the saucer.

Paint vertical sky blue stripes on the green portion of the pot and paint large green circles horizontally along the center of the pot. On the rim of the pot, paint small blue dots along the green stripes and small green dots along the blue stripes.

Let both pieces dry. Seal the pot with three parts glue and one part water.

2. Wine Cork Rattlesnake

Talk to your kids about habitat preservation and keeping the ecosystem healthy for animals. Plus, you can give yourself an excuse to finish off a few bottles of wine. ( Need some wine ideas? Try a few of these organic, sulfite-free wines.) If you get a little crazy with the collecting, you can also try these clever uses for wine corks.

Paint all 11 corks your primary snake color (green or brown work great). Let them all dry. Paint triangle or diamond patterns on each cork in other colors (black, red, and yellow are options). Let them all dry.

Thread the elastic through the 10 bored corks, threading a bead in between each cork. Be sure the tail cork tapers toward the rear. Thread six beads onto the tail and tie a knot at the end of the tail.

Pull the elastic up through the other end, but not so tight that your snake can’t move. Thread two beads on the piece of pipe cleaner to make the eyes, leaving a cork’s width in between the eyes and cutting off the excess pipe cleaner once the beads are secured in place.

Place the bottom of the split cork under the elastic and eyes. Glue the top half of the split cork on top, leaving the elastic threaded through the mouth for the snake’s tongue. Hold the snake’s head together with a rubberband until glue dries.

Cut the elastic tongue into a forked tongue shape and paint red. Let dry and play with your slithery snake.

Cut out two squares of cellophane and tape them over one end of each toilet paper tube.

Cut out two rectangles of green paper (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches).

Brush the green paper with glue and line up with the non-cellophane ends of your toilet paper tubes. Roll the tubes onto the paper. Trim the paper back from the cellophane ends, if necessary. Place the black tape around binocular rims on the cellophane ends.

Spread glue along the side of a tube and press it to the other tube. Hold it together with a rubberband until dry.

Push two small holes through the non-cellophane ends for the cord. Thread the cord through and tie knots on the inside.

]]>Celebrate Earth Day By Growing Your Own – Join Our Community Garden on Pinterest!http://www.organicauthority.com/foodie-buzz/celebrate-earth-day-by-growing-your-own-join-community-garden-pinterest.html
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000http://www.organicauthority.com/s1-foodie-buzz/c4-foodie-buzz/celebrate-earth-day-by-growing-your-own-join-community-garden-pinterest/April is Earth Month! How are you celebrating and honoring the planet this Earth Day? We’ve got a great way for you to participate in the festivities: join us in our exclusive Community Garden Board on Pinterest! With your help we can make this the biggest community garden on Pinterest! So, what exactly are we asking […]

April is Earth Month! How are you celebrating and honoring the planet this Earth Day? We’ve got a great way for you to participate in the festivities: join us in our exclusive Community Garden Board on Pinterest! With your help we can make this the biggest community garden on Pinterest!

So, what exactly are we asking you to do? It’s pretty simple, really: Take photos of what you’re growing, or of your favorite DIY garden projects! Examples include: traditional home/yard organic gardens, container gardens, windowsill herb gardens, mason jar sprouts or herb gardens. DIY projects include: canning and preserving, dehydrating, baking or anything that you’ve made with what scrumptious goodies you’ve grown. Have you made a delicious strawberry jam to preserve last year’s summer berry freshness? Or did you preserve your cucumbers, green beans or asparagus to enjoy through the winter? We want to see just how your crafty, garden-grown goodness looks! Photos will be shared on our community Pinterest page.

Then, on Sunday, April 21st at 1 pm PT, we’ll be doing a live webcast with the Whole Foods Market Fairfax on 3rd and Fairfax in Los Angeles to celebrate all Earthlings and You! Our own Editor-in-Chief Laura Klein will be on hand for the live demo along with Whole Foods Market Cooking Specialist, Sibyl Fenwick demoing some cool, crafty DIY projects with mason jars! They’ll also feature two of our readers’ projects live during the broadcast from the Community Garden Pinterest page. One lucky viewer will even win a $100 Whole Foods Market gift card good at any location – you must be present at the live webscast or present at the in store demo to win. Photos may also be included in a collage featured on OrganicAuthority.com and Whole Foods Market’s Earthling Month website (#wfmearthling).

How To Participate: Go to our Facebook page – to get an invite to post on our Community Garden board on Pinterest. You can also share in the fun by tweeting with the hashtag: #OAGrowEarthDay

By uploading your photos to the Pinterest page, you agree to allow Organic Authority and Whole Foods Market the use of your photos. All images must be submitted by April 18th at 5 pm PT to be eligible for the Whole Foods live webcast on Sunday April 21st at 1pm PT, and gift card. Remember, to win the $100 Whole Foods Market gift card you must be present during the live webcast.

Stay tuned on how you can watch the live webcast and have the chance to see your own photo or project featured live! We look forward to seeing your pins!

]]>Whole Foods Market Launches National Film Festival Honoring Earth Dayhttp://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/whole-foods-market-launches-national-film-festival-honoring-earth-day/
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:46:58 +0000http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=8890Whole Foods Market, the leading natural and organic food retail chain, announced the launch of its first ever nationwide film festival “Whole Foods Market Do Something Reel”, kicking off on April 1, 2011. Traveling to 70 cities across the country in celebration of Earth Month (Earth Day is April 22, 2011), the festival brings together […]

Whole Foods Market, the leading natural and organic food retail chain, announced the launch of its first ever nationwide film festival “Whole Foods Market Do Something Reel”, kicking off on April 1, 2011.

Traveling to 70 cities across the country in celebration of Earth Month (Earth Day is April 22, 2011), the festival brings together a collection of six films focused on food and the environment. “We see film as an inspirational medium that can spark an active dialogue and encourage people to take action locally,” according to Whole Foods CEO, Walter Robb, who also said in a statement on Whole Foods Web site that they hope the festival will “raise awareness of environmental and food issues, and support filmmakers who are creating films that inspire people to question the impact our choices have on our health, body and environment.”

The films are:

“Bag It!” –Filmmaker Suzan Beraza follows Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic-reliant world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics.

“Lunch Line” – Filmmakers Mike Graziano and Ernie Park follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch – and wind up at the White House.

“On Coal River” – A compelling and transcendent narrative on the human costs of coal and strip-mining, this provocative film from filmmakers Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Woods follows the journey of a former coal miner and his neighbors, residents of Coal River Valley in West Virginia, as they transform from so-called victims to fearless and informed experts on mountaintop removal.

“PLANEAT” – This visually stunning film from filmmakers Shelley Lee Davis and Or Shlomi tells the story of the scientists, farmers and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age: Western culture’s love affair with meat and dairy.

“Urban Roots”– Filmmaker Mark MacInnis tells the powerful story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally grown, sustainably farmed food in a city cut off from real food and limited to processed fast food.